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. >> the national gallup tracking poll of likely voters shows the presidential race even now at 48%. and tonight nate silver's forecasted that obama will win 294 electoral college votes and mitt romney will win 245. and president obama has a 68% chance of winning the election. it seems like 24 hours ago when we first heard mitt romney say that line yesterday, there's no legislation with regards to abortion that i am familiar with that would become part of my agenda. so many questions in there. you mean you're not familiar with it? and then here's his spokesperson today saying absolutely, he will sign -- as we said last night -- he will sign any legislation that a republican congress hands him on this. >> yeah. i think we've just discovered, lawrence, how long the leash around mitt romney extends. and just where it snaps and where it -- where that is is with social conservatives. it was funny because andrea saul, his spokesperson, contradicted two things within a matter of an hour. they drag him back in and make him pay homage. >> abc interviewed talking about what mitt romney tries t
. >> the national gallup tracking poll of likely voters shows the presidential race even now at 48%. and tonight nate silver's forecasted that obama will win 294 electoral college votes and mitt romney will win 245. and president obama has a 68% chance of winning the election. it seems like 24 hours ago when we first heard mitt romney say that line yesterday, there's no legislation with regards to abortion that i am familiar with that would become part of my agenda. so many questions in...
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the president's favorability is now 52 in that poll. mitt romney's is at 41. romney's unfavorable is at 45, which, as they say, is underwater on that. it's a big jump, though. a big improvement for romney, who in april had a favorability of only 35. president had a four-point higher favorability of 56. so that favorability gap is closing. but the president still has a significant lead over romney with it. that is the polling that indicates there's a vulnerability for romney on character. >> oh, i absolutely agree. i mean, i wouldn't read too much into the jump in his favorability. a lot of that is just republicans who waited forever to get blind mitt romney. finally at this late day saying, yeah, we like the guy. we're with him. a lot of that is at work there. i'm thinking of the slogan you just quoted from john's piece there. whether they use it or not, there's another aspect of the massachusetts record that speaks directly to it. one of the reasons why romney left massachusetts and so unpopular is because he quit on the job half way through. he was elected i
the president's favorability is now 52 in that poll. mitt romney's is at 41. romney's unfavorable is at 45, which, as they say, is underwater on that. it's a big jump, though. a big improvement for romney, who in april had a favorability of only 35. president had a four-point higher favorability of 56. so that favorability gap is closing. but the president still has a significant lead over romney with it. that is the polling that indicates there's a vulnerability for romney on character....
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>>> a new poll shows mitt romney gaining ground with women voters. is the republican strategy of 50 shades of mitt actually work sng karen finney and judith gray join us next. and in the rewrite tonight, the lies newt gingrich uses to diffuse the lies of the bloating ignoramous. newt insists there's nothing racist about the pid piper of racism himself says. that's coming up e piper of racism himself says. that's coming up [ male announcer ] the inspiring story of how a shipping giant can befriend a forest may seem like the stuff of fairy tales. but if you take away the faces on the trees... take away the pixie dust. take away the singing animals, and the storybook narrator... [ man ] you're left with more electric trucks. more recycled shipping materials... and a growing number of lower emissions planes... which still makes for a pretty enchanted tale. ♪ la la la [ man ] whoops, forgot one... [ male announcer ] sustainable solutions. fedex. solutions that matter. do you have any idea where you're going ? wherever the wind takes me. this is so off c
>>> a new poll shows mitt romney gaining ground with women voters. is the republican strategy of 50 shades of mitt actually work sng karen finney and judith gray join us next. and in the rewrite tonight, the lies newt gingrich uses to diffuse the lies of the bloating ignoramous. newt insists there's nothing racist about the pid piper of racism himself says. that's coming up e piper of racism himself says. that's coming up [ male announcer ] the inspiring story of how a shipping giant...
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re-election campaign is encouraged by a new poll out today that shows president obama leading mitt romney among swing state independent voters. now, these are the voters who usually decide the outcome in the general election, and it seems the president is ahead of mitt romney with these voters, mostly because they like president obama and they just don't much like mitt romney. the poll from the third way surveyed independent voters in these 12 swing states. among those voters, president obama leads mitt romney 44 to 38%. 57% view president obama favorably and 35% view him unfavorably. while only 41% view mitt romney favorably and basically the same amount, 40%, view him unfavorably. "saturday night live" opened the show this weekend with a rendering of mitt romney that seizes on the with one constant in romney's 20-year political career. he will always try to say whatever his audience wants to hear, whether that's an audience of liberal massachusetts voters in 1994 or conservative republican primary voters this year. >> following his primary victories last tuesday in wisconsin, maryland,
re-election campaign is encouraged by a new poll out today that shows president obama leading mitt romney among swing state independent voters. now, these are the voters who usually decide the outcome in the general election, and it seems the president is ahead of mitt romney with these voters, mostly because they like president obama and they just don't much like mitt romney. the poll from the third way surveyed independent voters in these 12 swing states. among those voters, president obama...
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in the "new york times" cbs poll, santorum has 30% and romney has 27%. ron paul down 0 to 12%, gingrich 10%. in the in another paul santorum 34%, romney 32% and paul 16%. if the republicans really want the conservative, why isn't santorum at 50% and mitt romney at 25%? it is certainly isn't electability, not anymore. in the new cnn poll santorum is running virtually identical as romney does against president obama. president obama beats romney 51 to 46. and the president beats santorum 52 to 45%. why should this be a tough choice for a party that says it prizes conservatism above all else? joining me is alice stewart, national press secretary for rick santorum's campaign. >> i don't know why i am heed here. you pled my case. you said that rick is the conservative candidate. >> the official position of the show is anybody but romney. i share that view with the majority of republican voters. but possibly for a different reason. i think some will have the same reason i do and we will get to that before we finish talking. i'm wondering if you and the santoru
in the "new york times" cbs poll, santorum has 30% and romney has 27%. ron paul down 0 to 12%, gingrich 10%. in the in another paul santorum 34%, romney 32% and paul 16%. if the republicans really want the conservative, why isn't santorum at 50% and mitt romney at 25%? it is certainly isn't electability, not anymore. in the new cnn poll santorum is running virtually identical as romney does against president obama. president obama beats romney 51 to 46. and the president beats...
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we now see in some of these polls with mitt romney only polling at 14% with latino voters. so as the country has changed, so too as the republican party. and it has changed in the wrong direction. this is a dynamic electorate. it's a growing electorate. if you had george bush at 44%, if romney was able to meet those numbers, he would be doing incredibly well with hispanics and it would actually put him at margins of victories in a lot of states, but instead he's having a very big problem with this demographic, in large part because the republican primary has made it very difficult to go into the general electorate and be palatable to a general electorate that is now much more diverse. >> professor abramowitz, the numbers that you've studied are exactly the kind of thing that karl rove was a master of studying and probably still is. and he, within the republican party, has privately and semi-publicly been sounding the alarm about what's happening to the republican message, among the voters that alicia was just talking about. is that what you found looking into these numbers?
we now see in some of these polls with mitt romney only polling at 14% with latino voters. so as the country has changed, so too as the republican party. and it has changed in the wrong direction. this is a dynamic electorate. it's a growing electorate. if you had george bush at 44%, if romney was able to meet those numbers, he would be doing incredibly well with hispanics and it would actually put him at margins of victories in a lot of states, but instead he's having a very big problem with...
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new polls show just how much the tapes have hert mitt romney. and he was caught in a lie today about his secret tax returns. >>> and in voter suppression news, a big win for voters in a pennsylvania courtroom today. and in the rewrite, the only way mitt romney can win the debate, it was all laid out for him by the best republican presidential debater ever, who was of course a fictional character in the t.v. series olaf's pizza palace gets the most rewards of any small business credit card! pizza!!!!! [ garth ] olaf's small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! helium delivery. put it on my spark card! [ pop! ] [ garth ] why settle for less? great businesses deserve the most rewards! awesome!!! [ male announcer ] the spark business card from capital one. choose unlimited rewards with 2% cash back or double miles on every purchase, every day! what's in your wallet? we might still be making mix tapes. find this. pause this. play this. eject this. write this. it's like the days before esurance express lane™. you had to find a b
new polls show just how much the tapes have hert mitt romney. and he was caught in a lie today about his secret tax returns. >>> and in voter suppression news, a big win for voters in a pennsylvania courtroom today. and in the rewrite, the only way mitt romney can win the debate, it was all laid out for him by the best republican presidential debater ever, who was of course a fictional character in the t.v. series olaf's pizza palace gets the most rewards of any small business credit...
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a new poll shows president obama running ten points ahead of mitt romney in ohio, which is where abc news found mitt romney tonight and confronted him about the heavy words he dropped on 47% of the american people. >> about the people you said you couldn't convince to take greater responsibility. those are heavy words. >> what i'm talking about is a political process. i don't expect to get 100% of the vote. i hope to get 50-plus % and make sure i get the next president. >> that was his answer to the worst possible thing he could have said in his campaign, that was the best he could respond with. notice that no where in that answer does mitt romney attempt to actually repair the damage of his secretly recorded words. he simply says i'm just trying to get more than 50% of the vote. no word of explanation. no attempt of an apology to any of the american voters who have now heard him say this. >> 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. all right? there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe they are victims, who believe that the
a new poll shows president obama running ten points ahead of mitt romney in ohio, which is where abc news found mitt romney tonight and confronted him about the heavy words he dropped on 47% of the american people. >> about the people you said you couldn't convince to take greater responsibility. those are heavy words. >> what i'm talking about is a political process. i don't expect to get 100% of the vote. i hope to get 50-plus % and make sure i get the next president. >>...
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the nbc news poll shows president obama holding a narrow lead over mitt romney. obama polls at 47%. four points ahead of romney's 4 #%. joining us now is karen finney. former dnc communications director and current political analyst. jonathan capehart. "washington post" writer. thank you to all of you for joining me tonight. karen, we have democrats who say they're uncomfortable criticizing mitt romney's record at bain. but has the president and now the vice president articulated an attack that all democrats can agree on? basically, mitt romney is applying for the wrong job. >> absolutely. as usual the president articulated the message better than anybody else. joe biden the time followed the president quite well in making the point that this has nothing to do with is bain a good company or not. is this kind of business a good thing or not? no. the question is the 15 years that he ran this company, what was the total picture of the record. not just here's where we did okay. let's see what really happened in the life cycle of that company, and that's part of what the groups are tryin
the nbc news poll shows president obama holding a narrow lead over mitt romney. obama polls at 47%. four points ahead of romney's 4 #%. joining us now is karen finney. former dnc communications director and current political analyst. jonathan capehart. "washington post" writer. thank you to all of you for joining me tonight. karen, we have democrats who say they're uncomfortable criticizing mitt romney's record at bain. but has the president and now the vice president articulated an...
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new polls show just how much the tapes have hert mitt romney. and he was caught in a lie today about his secret tax returns. >>> and in voter suppression news, a big win for voters in a pennsylvania courtroom today. and in the rewrite, the only way mitt romney can win the debate, it was all laid out for him by the best republican presidential debater ever, who was of course a fictional character in the t.v. series "the west wing." nd.. ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. to start her own interior design business. she's got a growing list of clients she keeps in touch with using e-mail marketing from constantcontact.com. constantcontact is easy and affordable. it lets her send out updates and photos that showcase her expertise and inspire her customers for only $15 a month. [ dog barking ] her dream -- to be the area's hottest interior design o
new polls show just how much the tapes have hert mitt romney. and he was caught in a lie today about his secret tax returns. >>> and in voter suppression news, a big win for voters in a pennsylvania courtroom today. and in the rewrite, the only way mitt romney can win the debate, it was all laid out for him by the best republican presidential debater ever, who was of course a fictional character in the t.v. series "the west wing." nd.. ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or...
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a quinnipiac poll has romney ahead of santorum by three points. also within the margin of error. and in tennessee, a robo poll has santorum up by five points. "red state" editor in chief eric erickson has given up on the republican field and today chose some very bitter words to essentially say, president obama is going to win re-election. there are people like me who are pretty sure that as much as romney will struggle against the president, why, yes, rick santorum would be post, too. we are going against the second coming of jimmy carter battling to find the tallest midget to put up against him." joining me now, obama campaign national co-chair and california attorney general carmela harris and "the new yorker's" washington correspondent ryan lizza. thank you for joining me in studio tonight. you've just flown across the country from the single biggest delegate catch in -- i mean electoral college catch in the general election. >> great golden state. >> which, of course, is locked up for president obama. when you look at what's happening in michigan and ohio in these states tha
a quinnipiac poll has romney ahead of santorum by three points. also within the margin of error. and in tennessee, a robo poll has santorum up by five points. "red state" editor in chief eric erickson has given up on the republican field and today chose some very bitter words to essentially say, president obama is going to win re-election. there are people like me who are pretty sure that as much as romney will struggle against the president, why, yes, rick santorum would be post,...
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keith, this favorability rating we're seeing among the undecideds, with mitt romney's polling only favorable to dick cheney's unfavorability rating, truly, when he was leaving office, cheney had a 13, which is about as low as you can find in polling. you just need your family and extended family to get to 13. i mean, how -- is there any way romney can get these undecided if the they don't like him so much? >> yes, there is, but he's not willing to do it. there's a number in the poll, 67% of people in the poll like president obama personally, but only 47% like mitt romney personally. in order for romney to connect, he's got to talk about his experiences. he's got to talk about his faith as a mormon, he's got to talk about his experiences as a business leader at bain, talk about his experiences at the olympics, talk about all the things he doesn't want to talk about, because those are the things he's been hiding from us, as the american people have been asking these questions. so he's in this tough position. he doesn't want to disclose anything, but that's exactly what he needs to do in order
keith, this favorability rating we're seeing among the undecideds, with mitt romney's polling only favorable to dick cheney's unfavorability rating, truly, when he was leaving office, cheney had a 13, which is about as low as you can find in polling. you just need your family and extended family to get to 13. i mean, how -- is there any way romney can get these undecided if the they don't like him so much? >> yes, there is, but he's not willing to do it. there's a number in the poll, 67%...
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poll shows president obama with an even bigger lead over mitt romney, 48% to 42%. on sunday, the bus will travel to ohio, where our own nbc news/marist poll shows president obama with a six-point lead over governor romney, 48 to 42. on monday, the romney bus tour will stop in iowa, where the latest nbc news/marist poll shows the president and romney in a tie, 44 to 44. also on monday, the bus will also go through wisconsin, where the recent marquette poll shows president obama with 51% to mitt romney's 43%. and the bus tour will end next tuesday in michigan, where the most recent poll by epic mra shows them in a statistical tie with romney at 46% and president obama at 45%. today, the obama campaign kicked off its road to recovery tour, what it's calling the road to recovery tour, highlighting the impact of the auto rescue on businesses and communities across michigan. it comes as the obama campaign and the romney campaign are each trying to capitalize on comments their opponents made last week about the economy. president obama said this friday while taking questi
poll shows president obama with an even bigger lead over mitt romney, 48% to 42%. on sunday, the bus will travel to ohio, where our own nbc news/marist poll shows president obama with a six-point lead over governor romney, 48 to 42. on monday, the romney bus tour will stop in iowa, where the latest nbc news/marist poll shows the president and romney in a tie, 44 to 44. also on monday, the bus will also go through wisconsin, where the recent marquette poll shows president obama with 51% to mitt...
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obama now has a lead over mitt romney in the polls, 49 to 42%. and with just 119 days until the election, a new "washington post" national poll finds the two candidates tied at 47. and a new reuters poll has the president leading mitt romney by six points, 49 to 43. it seems the romney campaign has decided he cannot win, running as a republican, so he is now trying to appeal to independent voters by running as a new democrat. a bill clinton democrat. >> bill clinton called himself a new democrat. he put that behind him. he believed in smaller government, reformed welfare as we knew it, and tried to get the economy going with trade and other provisions, lowered taxes. look, new democrats have done some good things. >> and with that statement, mitt romney has left us with a choice. he is either a liar or what george will would call a bloviating ignoramus. he actually said that bill clinton lowered taxes. that's it. that's his statement about bill clinton and taxes. bill clinton not only raised taxes, he signed the biggest tax increase in history. h
obama now has a lead over mitt romney in the polls, 49 to 42%. and with just 119 days until the election, a new "washington post" national poll finds the two candidates tied at 47. and a new reuters poll has the president leading mitt romney by six points, 49 to 43. it seems the romney campaign has decided he cannot win, running as a republican, so he is now trying to appeal to independent voters by running as a new democrat. a bill clinton democrat. >> bill clinton called...
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an orc poll of registered voters showed the president up seven points on romney, 52% to 45%. and a fox news poll of registered voters shows the president up nine points on romney, 49% to 40% as the president's biggest lead in that poll since romney became the presumptive republican nominee. joining me now, the huffington post's sam stein, msnbc's joy reid, and father james martin. he's a jesuit priest and author of "the jesuit guide to almost everything." we were discussing in the green room my father was a jesuit seminarian for seven years. i feel like i knowou already, father, it's good to have you here. to you, father, for the political strategy right off the bat here. in all seriousness, father, i'm curious to get your reaction to that ad because what was striking to me about the ad and what's striking to me about going on this issue was that there was a huge fight over this provision of the affordable care act and whether religious institutions like universities would have to cover preventative care including birth control for free. and that was a political battle that w
an orc poll of registered voters showed the president up seven points on romney, 52% to 45%. and a fox news poll of registered voters shows the president up nine points on romney, 49% to 40% as the president's biggest lead in that poll since romney became the presumptive republican nominee. joining me now, the huffington post's sam stein, msnbc's joy reid, and father james martin. he's a jesuit priest and author of "the jesuit guide to almost everything." we were discussing in the...
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a new reuters poll finds that romney is losing their support. before the democratic convention romney led among seniors by 20 points and now romney leads president obama by less than four points. that is a dramatic drop. >> it is a dramatic drop. and that's partly because of the additional of paul ryan. you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig. paul ryan's program was the elimination of medicare. and i believe barack obama is going to get elected president of the united states because he's going to take florida and ohio and that's the death knell for any republican ticket. the bold person he picked was really badly cut into his margin with seniors. i think at the end of the day it's conceivable that obama will actually win the senior vote. >> howard dean and jonathan cohn. thank you for joining me tonight. >> thanks for having us. >> thanks. >>> coming up in the rewrite. the things that paul ryan just can't say anymore because he doesn't want to get in trouble with mitt. and we'll look into the most manipulated tax return in history. [
a new reuters poll finds that romney is losing their support. before the democratic convention romney led among seniors by 20 points and now romney leads president obama by less than four points. that is a dramatic drop. >> it is a dramatic drop. and that's partly because of the additional of paul ryan. you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig. paul ryan's program was the elimination of medicare. and i believe barack obama is going to get elected president of the united states...
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the latest american research group poll shows rick santorum with a 36% statistical tie with romney's 35%. ron paul polls a very distant third with 15%. newt gingrich fourth with 8%. such polling has romney's most prized supporter talking about what happens if mitt romney actually loses michigan tomorrow. >> is there a possibility if governor romney were to lose michigan for contested election -- contested convention? sure that's a possibility. i'm not going to deny that possibility exists. >> romney and santorum trail president obama in michigan according to the most recent nbc polling. president obama leads romney 51% to 33%. the president leads rick santorum 55% to 29%. a new politico poll shows president obama also leading the republican candidates nationally. president obama leads 53% to 43%, a 10-point lead. the president leads rick santorum 53% to 42%. mitt romney ended his michigan campaign today with the exposure of another fake memory about his father and him. >> i think my dad had a job like the grand, the master, whatever, of the 50th celebration of the automobile in detro
the latest american research group poll shows rick santorum with a 36% statistical tie with romney's 35%. ron paul polls a very distant third with 15%. newt gingrich fourth with 8%. such polling has romney's most prized supporter talking about what happens if mitt romney actually loses michigan tomorrow. >> is there a possibility if governor romney were to lose michigan for contested election -- contested convention? sure that's a possibility. i'm not going to deny that possibility...
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registered voters shows romney up 7% on romney, 52 to 45%, and a fox news poll shows the president up nine points on romney, 49 to 40%. the president's biggest lead in that poll since romney became the presumptive nominee. joining ema ining n ining me no discussing my father was a jesuit seminarian. i feel like i know you, father, already. in all seriousness, father, i'm curious to get your reaction to that ad. what was striking to me about the ad and what's striking me about going on this issue was there was a huge fight over this provision of the affordable care act and whether religious institutions like universities would have to cover preventive care including birth control for free. and that was a political battle that was waged and i think the democrats won that political battle in purely political terms. but it just seemed like a strange thing to me to be trotting out in august in a general election campaign. do you feel the symbolism there and the picture of the pope and the be not afraid and rousing music has some sort of power with the catholic voter that i'm missing? >> it
registered voters shows romney up 7% on romney, 52 to 45%, and a fox news poll shows the president up nine points on romney, 49 to 40%. the president's biggest lead in that poll since romney became the presumptive nominee. joining ema ining n ining me no discussing my father was a jesuit seminarian. i feel like i know you, father, already. in all seriousness, father, i'm curious to get your reaction to that ad. what was striking to me about the ad and what's striking me about going on this...